Food fight

[The Straight Story]

In ruling on a discrimination claim filed against a school for its supposed failure to accommodate one student’s allergy to eggs and dairy, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal should definitely consider human rights — those of all the other children at the school.

Hamilton mom Lynne Glover filed the complaint because her six-year-old daughter, Elodie, has a potentially fatal food allergy, yet she says the school continues to have bake sales, pizza days and a milk and snack program that doles out pudding, cheese and yogurt.

It is ridiculous that every other child in the school should be denied pizza, milk, packaged food with dairy and egg ingredients, or cheese sandwiches because of one student’s allergy. This school is already peanut- and tree-nut free. With so many foods containing dairy and egg, there is not much left for these other children to bring to school in their lunches. Yet the parents of hundreds of kids are expected to shop for groceries and restrict their children’s food variety while keeping Elodie’s allergy uppermost in their minds every day for possibly years to come. That’s unfair and unrealistic.

Glover also complains that Elodie’s valentines had to be recycled for fear of contamination while other students ate chocolate on that day.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/editorials/Editorial+Food+fight/9387409/story.html

[DebJ]

1. My husband is working as a substitute in Harrisburg, Pa

Apparently what they do is transfer children with severe allergies to nuts and perfumes to
i think it is two schools, so only those two schools have restrictions.
Sounds smart to me.